slip

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.4.2 Related terms 1.5 Anagrams 2 Croatian 2.1 Alternative forms 2.2 Etymology 1 2.2.1 Adjective 2.3 Etymology 2 2.3.1 Noun 3 Dutch 3.1 Noun 3.2 Noun 3.3 Verb 4 French 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Pronunciation 4.3 Noun 4.4 Anagrams 5 Italian 5.1 Noun 6 Spanish 6.1 Noun 6.2 References

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: slĭp, IPA: /slɪp/, SAMPA: /slIp/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ɪp

[edit] Etymology

Slip comes from Old English slype, relative of slop, meaning liquid mud.

[edit] Noun

slip (plural slips)

1. An act or instance of slipping.
2. A women's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress; a shift.
3. A small piece of paper.
4. A mistake or error (slip of the tongue.)
5. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
6. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
7. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
8. (uncountable) In ceramics, a thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
9. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
10. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.

[edit] Synonyms

• (a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, stumble, thinko
• (return to previous behaviour): lapse

[edit] Derived terms

• (undergarment): full slip, waist slip

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to slip (third-person singular simple present slips, present participle slipping, simple past and past participle slipped)

1. To lose one's traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
2. To err.
3. To pass (a note, money, etc.) often covertly
4. To move quickly and often secretively
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift...

5. To worsen.

   Profits have slipped over the past 6 months.

6. (falconry) To release a bird of prey to go after a quarry.

[edit] Translations

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Freudian slip let something slip pink slip nonslip sales slip slippage slippery slipshod slip of the tongue

slip one's mind slip through one's fingers slip away slip down slip into slip road slip out slip up slip-up there's many a slip twixt cup and lip

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ilps
• lips
• lisp, Lisp

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[edit] Croatian

[edit] Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian, standard): slijȇp

[edit] Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *slěpъ.

[edit] Adjective

slip

1. (Chakavian) (Ikavian) blind
   • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):

   Slipi jeste [ludujući],

   vaše boge verujući

   kî nigdare vas ne sliše

   ni vas koga [kad] utiše.

   • Late C15, early C16, Šiško Menčetić, Ako ćeš, Stijepo moj, za mene što stvorit:

   Ter je prem sasma slip tko ne zri sunačce

   • 1546, Petar Zoranić, Planine:

   To j' uzrok da travi tako slip bog ljubven,

   a ne kako pravi tkogod nenaučen.

   • 1559, Marin Držić, Hekuba:

   Ma ovo nadvor gre u srdžbi i u gnijevu vas,

   krv s oči slipih tre, s oružjem gre put nas;

   • 1630s, Ivan Gundulić, Osman:

   I gdi unutri o mrak slipi

   Nepoznat se junak hvata

   • 1759, Antun Kanižlić

   Zato slipi, koji srići tamjan nose

   i u tugah svojih pomoć od nje prose;

   slipi, koji scine, da je ona kuća,

   gdi ona prosine, svitla i moguća,

   i da dili blago slipa vila svima,

   i kad joj je drago, opet uzme njima.

   • 1762, Matija Antun Relković, Satir iliti divji čovik:

   Zar ste slipi, tere ne vidite?

[edit] Etymology 2

Neologism, from English slip (of paper).

[edit] Noun

slip m (plural slipovi)

1. Credit or debit card receipt

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Noun

slip (plural slips, diminutive slipje) f.

1. briefs, scanty type of undershorts which covers the buttocks but nothing below
2. (by extension, for women) knickers, any female underpants
3. tail, part of an upper garment hanging below the waist

[edit] Noun

slip (plural slippen, diminutive slipje, diminutive plural slipjes) m.

1. skid, an act or instance of slipping.

[edit] Verb

slip

1. first person singular present tense and imperative form of slippen

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From English to slip.

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Noun

slip m. (plural slips)

1. briefs (men's underwear)

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ilps
• plis

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

slip m. inv.

1. Men's or women's underwear (knickers, panties)
2. swimming trunks

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Noun

slip m. singular & plural

1. briefs, pants, men's underwear
2. knickers, panties (less usual meaning)

[edit] References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]